It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
I’ll turn over a new leaf.
By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.
Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
All is not gold that glisters.
When God sends the dawn, he sends it for all.
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds.
Where one door shuts another opens.
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
They who lose today may win tomorrow.
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works.
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Thou camest out of thy mother’s belly without government, thou hast liv’d hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look’d upon?
Comparisons are odious.
That’s the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause.